Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding is available for palliative care services.
As with the vast majority of NHS services, the commissioning of palliative and end of life care is a local matter, over which individual clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have responsibility. CCGs are best placed to understand the needs of local populations and fund services to meet those needs from the overall resource allocations they receive.